Global Science and Innovation Network
A blog showcasing the work of the Global UK Science and Innovation Network, approximately 90 officers in over 30 countries and territories around the world
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12th May 2014
Mumbai, India
Previously, when anyone mentioned Nagpur to me, I’d immediately think of oranges, searing summer heat (> 40 °C), and Haldiram’s! Well, I’ll now include another item to that list – environmental research! Last month, I went to Nagpur along with Dr. Philip Earis from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) to visit the National Environmental […]
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9th May 2014
Toronto, Canada
SIN Canada, in partnership with Prof. Cam Donaldson at Glasgow Caledonian University and the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health, will be running a project this autumn on the effects of social enterprise on public health. A social enterprise is loosely defined as a business (either for-profit or not-for-profit) whose primary aim is to […]
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8th May 2014
Toronto, Canada
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8th May 2014
Bangalore, India
I’ve already told you about the Rutherford Appleton Lab, part two of my UK space odyssey was the Strathclyde Space Institute (SSI), University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. As I walked through the institute I saw a photograph of a strange looking air vehicle called the Skylon Spaceplane. This spaceplane, which is still in experimental stage, […]
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8th May 2014
Bangalore, India
I have been intrigued by Cohort studies ever since I learnt about it when I was working on colonies of ants during my M.Sc. In the last few months, I have learnt quite a lot about cohort studies in humans. Especially during the last two workshops that we had organised with partner organisations – one […]
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6th May 2014
Mumbai, India
Last month on April 9, my colleagues – Leena Arora (Science and Innovation Network) and Abhirup Dasgupta (UK Trade and Investment) – and I collaborated with the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge to organise a roundtable discussion on UK-India manufacturing policy in New Delhi. While the UK speakers came from organisations including […]
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29th April 2014
Toronto, Canada
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28th April 2014
New Delhi, India
As regular readers of this blog will know, each year we run a number of events throughout the year to promote research and innovation collaboration between the UK and India. We fund these through the UK’s Global Partnership Fund – a pot of money administered by the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to […]
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23rd April 2014
Los Angeles, USA
I guest-blogged over on the Queen Elizabeth Prize ‘Create the Future’ site this month on the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, as well as an interview that I conducted with Dame Wendy Hall. Read it here.
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22nd April 2014
Toronto, Canada
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